Friday, September 13, 2013

Loneliness Increases Dementia Risk, Heart Attacks and Stroke

A recent study published in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry has found that people who feel lonely are significantly more at risk for developing dementia. The study, headed by Tjalling Jan Holwerda of the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, found that participants who reported feeling lonely,
no matter how many friends and family surrounded them, were more likely
to experience dementia than those who didn’t feel lonely. The team
focused on approximately 2,200 older adults living in Amsterdam, ages 65
to 86.